Bit of live 40/80

I went to Ocean's Saturday night hopeful for 75/150 action but the place was dead. I wound up playing short 40/80 and ran ridiculously bad right away, losing 3 racks before I won a pot that saw the turn.  My favorite of them was I raised ATs, fish called in bb.  Flop was KT7 he check/calls.  Turn is another ten and he donks (which means he has nothing, I'd raise any pair here and most ace highs I think), I raise of course, he calls and checks the river in the dark.  The river is a 9, I bet, he calls and says "full house is good" which strikes me as an odd comment, so I show my three tens and he shows J8o for the straight.  Wow.  He left shortly after with way too much money.

Eventually the game was like 4 handed with a solid live player I've played with a lot on my right.  As I have been doing a lot of lately I was completely out of line preflop, 3 betting him with 43s and stuff from the button and running good for little stretches and bad for others, swinging wildly two racks at a time. I had an interesting hand against him when I raised 66 UTG and he defended bb.  Flop was QT6r he CR, I 3 bet, he 4 bet I called.  Turn was a 7 he bet I raised, 3 bet.  At this point you have to know that he would play TT and QQ this way preflop (I know this from experience with him) so I was pretty unthrilled with the situation.  I put him on basically QQ, TT, QT, discounted Q6 and T6 and maybe AA.  I'm a favorite against this range but not by a ton, and after talking with Entity about the hand I think the play is to call and raise a non Q or T river.  At the time, however, I decided to 4 bet the turn and fold to a 5 bet but luckily he didn't 5 bet me and he check/called river with his QT.  I continued to cold deck him repeatedly and the others in the game did too and he eventually left not too happy.

I wound up playing 3 handed with an ok guy who was too weak tight and didn't know what to do with my preflop aggression, and a loose goofy old guy who was running super hot and as a result playing halfway decently postflop (aggressive because he was feeling happy and confident, which 3 handed is correct).  It was tough to put him on hands because he'd make turn bluff raises and river bluffs at random times.  Luckily the ok weak tight guy was tilted and playing even more weak tight and running bad to boot.  I played him HU while the other guy was smoking / wandering around and won probably 8 out of 9 hands, mostly just by making him fold.  I wound up making a pretty good comeback in this game to only down one rack when the random guy quit and the other guy didn't want to play HU anymore so I went home early.

published Sep 24, 2007 10:28am by DeathDonkey, DeathDonkey.com


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